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Advice Ruger Mini-30 firing pin keeps breaking on a brand new gun.
6/8/08
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Posted on 06/08/2008 7:15:42 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
Based on the valuable input from a previous thread, I picked up a brand new Ruger Mini-30. Right out of the box I had the sad experience of pulling the trigger and no bang. I send it back to the factory, waited long 3 weeks and got it back with a note that they had replaced the firing pin. Took it out yesterday and got 5 shots off before the pin broke again. Can’t blame cheap ammo, I’m using USA made Winchester. Is Ruger using glass firing pins? Is something misaligned in the action causing extra stress on the pin?
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To: Last Dakotan
I'm a armorer for My department, and We use the mini 14. It's maybe a bad batch of pins. The other thing it could be is hard primers, or old/bad milspec. ammo. The only other thing it could be is a timing problem or bad headspacing. With the exception of the ammo, all others are "factory" fixes. It may take a while, but Ruger
will make it right(imho).
FWIW
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06/09/2008 6:34:15 AM PDT
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Celtic Conservative
("Minutum Cantorum, Minutum Baloram, Minutum Carboratum Descendam Pantorum")
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